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'Eight-year-old Pearl tries very hard to get things right. She watches over her small brother and manages her mother's happiness, while carefully guarding her private passions. But the events of a summer's day are about to change Pearl's life, and nothing may ever be right again. In a cooler, greener suburb, Sonia is learning to live alone after the death of her husband, and at the edge of the city, close to the beaches, the young artist Adam Logan is hoping that his recent celebrity will open the doors to a new life. In ways connected but unforeseen, Pearl's tragedy will soon affect the worlds of these two strangers. Combining the intimacy of a family's heartache, with the suspense of a thriller, Careless is a gripping, seductive novel about the ties of caring and responsibility, that are formed, and broken, in our society. It is a novel about our times.' (Backcover)

Works about this Work

The Silver Age of FictionPeter Pierce,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
Meanjin,Summervol.
70no.
42011;(p. 110-115)AbstractPeter Pierce looks at contemporary Australian fiction to define Australia's 'Silver Age of Australian fiction' .

UndercoverSusan Wyndham,
2007single work column — Appears in:
The Sydney Morning Herald,31 March - 1 April2007;(p. 30)AbstractA column canvassing current literary news including some literary award news: the announcement of the 2007 winner of the Grace Leven Poetry Prize (to Robert Adamson for The Goldfinches of Baghdad) and the shortlisting of Deborah Robertson's Careless for several awards.

UndercoverSusan Wyndham,
2007single work column — Appears in:
The Sydney Morning Herald,31 March - 1 April2007;(p. 30)AbstractA column canvassing current literary news including some literary award news: the announcement of the 2007 winner of the Grace Leven Poetry Prize (to Robert Adamson for The Goldfinches of Baghdad) and the shortlisting of Deborah Robertson's Careless for several awards.

The Silver Age of FictionPeter Pierce,
2011single work criticism — Appears in:
Meanjin,Summervol.
70no.
42011;(p. 110-115)AbstractPeter Pierce looks at contemporary Australian fiction to define Australia's 'Silver Age of Australian fiction' .